3+ day, 13+ hour ago   (170+ words) Cement and salt to shake off tariffs reminetwork.com The United States government is lifting the 50 per cent tariff it has applied on imports of Canadian cement and road salt since Aug. 29. The announcement is included in a new presidential…...

4+ day, 20+ hour ago   (269+ words) Construction is underway on the Accessible Arts Learning Campus in Calgary, marking the development of the world’s first accessible arts learning campus. The National accessArts Centre (NaAC) officially broke ground on the project in June. The campus will feature two…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (338+ words) School administrators and facilities managers still have a few weeks to assess and adjust outdoor lighting, devise traffic safety protocols and consider design tweaks to brighten up classroom ambience before start-times become discordant with human circadian rhythms. Sleepier students can…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (314+ words) Green Seal® has announced that PlantPaper is the first bamboo toilet paper and facial tissue to earn Green Seal certification, marking a major milestone for the rapidly growing alternative-fiber tissue market. The certifications put Green Seal’s new sustainability standard for…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (255+ words) Storm shelters demonstrate concrete resistance reminetwork.com Specifications for prototype storm shelters, ranging from family-sized to community-sized assemblies, have been released to inform contractors and facilities managers on effective concrete masonry applications for safety and code compliance. They’re found in…...

2+ week, 3+ day ago   (269+ words) “Canadian softwood lumber already faces combined U.S. duties and Section 232 tariffs exceeding 45 per cent,” said Kim Haakstad, interim President of the BC Lumber Trade Council. “Section 338 now extends this high-tariff environment to a much broader range of Canadian forest products…...

2+ week, 3+ day ago   (242+ words) The City of North Vancouver has opened Crosscut Bridge, a new pedestrian and cycling bridge over the Upper Levels Highway. Spanning from Loutet Park to the intersection of Casano Drive and Rufus Avenue, Crosscut Bridge creates a new north-south connection…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago   (260+ words) The Canadian government has released a long list of items to be subject to 15, 25 or 50 per cent counter-tariffs, in response to the U.S. government’s Aug. 22 imposition of a 50 per cent tariff on an extensive slate of Canadian imports. Canada’s countermeasures apply…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (218+ words) The new 50 per cent tariff on Canadian cement imports is expected to exert further upward pressure on construction costs in the United States. That adds to the mix of surcharges on softwood lumber, steel and aluminum that have already contributed…...

3+ week, 4+ day ago   (443+ words) A distinct electricity rate for facilities with average peak demand of 1 megawatt (MW) or more is part of a proposed package of requirements for data centres seeking to connect to Ontario’s power grid. Details are sketched out in a newly…...